Re: Nintex workflow is updating the append only column.

Hi all. Not sure if this is still an issue with recent versions of Nintex forms (we haven't upgraded for a while), but I solved this by making sure whenever my workflow updates an item, I also get it to update the appending comments field with blank data. Somehow it doesn't actually update the comments at all no matter how many times the other fields are updated.

Re: Nintex workflow is updating the append only column.

The cause of this is the type of multi-line of text field you are using. When using rich or enhanced text, this issue will occur. I believe it has something to do with an empty html element being created for the empty field, making it ready for you to insert text (so in fact it really is not empty), and Nintex then believes an update has occurred. If you change the field to plaintext then the issue will go away.

A quick warning though, changing field type like this will result in all previous data being lost, so this will not work if you are looking to keep the existing content stored in these fields as rich / enhanced text.